Originally Posted by
Pistonprop
And potentially so many deaths that the services won't be able to keep pace. Millions will die in pain at home or even in the streets (homeless) as there will be no other place and no medical staff available for them. Great plan Jonty. The only option right now is to impose restrictions, keep the numbers down and wait patiently for a vaccine or better ways to treat the people with the virus. But then again, you will still need ample resources to do that.
The way things are going with this government's beyond incompetent handling of this whole fiasco, there isn't going to be any tax revenue to pay for people to be treated anyway because nobody is going to be employed.
A vaccine has been a "moonshot" if you like from the beginning. Even if (and it's still a big if) a safe vaccine is developed, it is unlikely to be particularly effective or provide long lasting immunity. It is time for everyone to grow up and accept that death is inevitable and that sometimes despite the best efforts of medical science there's nothing that can be done to save some people. Destroying the world's economy, causing untold misery for millions (UNICEF reporting that an additional 150 million children will be plunged into poverty as a direct result of the Covid panic, for example) is the most incredible act of self harm witnessed in human history.